On August 25th 2010 the Edmonton Chapter of PASS is having it’s next meeting. Details below: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/792195478 Please be sure to not only click the “Add to my calendar” but also the “Register” button so that we can plan accordingly for food and drinks. Date: August 25th 2010 Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Location: Stanley A. Milner library Map: 7 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘powershell’
Monitoring With Powershell (pings, services, and websites)
So it’s no secret that I’ve been having an affair on TSQL. I’ve been seeing PowerShell behind her back and I gotta tell ya even after the initial excitement of a new language I’m still loving it. Let’s talk monitoring. I started with a requirement of: Pinging a list of production level servers Checking specific [...]
Rebooting a Server Using PowerShell
The more I work with PowerShell the more I love it So what do you do if you’re in a VM environment and you want/need to reboot your server but you can’t connect via RDP and you can’t connect to the console using the VM Infrastructure Client, and all other attempts to connect just don’t [...]
Fail Whale for SSMS and CMS for PBM using PS
Translation: Fail Whale for SQL Server Management Studio and Central Management Server for Policy Based Managment using PowerShell…. lol simple eh? So this is a Microsoft Connect Item in the making… I had created a PowerShell script to run a bunch of policies against a list of servers that I defined in a ServerList.txt file. [...]
SQL Bacon Nugget of Excellence Award @SQLGal
OK so the last time I handed out a SQL Bacon Nugget of Excellence Award was July 8th for @SQLAgentMan ‘s article on Determining Free Space, Consumed Space, and Total Space Allocated for Microsoft SQL Server Databases and this time around @SQLGal has put something together that can only be described as a SQL Bacon Nugget [...]
